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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

blindskills.com

Blindskills, Inc. Providing Resources to the Blind Community

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

152 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

398 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Blindskills content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about blindskills.com

Blindskills, a non-profit publisher, produces DIALOGUE, a quarterly magazine and comprehensive information on blindness and coping with vision loss.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blindskills.com page load time and found that the first response time was 152 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blindskills.com performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,070 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blindskills.com

152 ms

skills2.css

40 ms

btn_donateCC_LG.gif

43 ms

videoseries

143 ms

new_cover.jpg

502 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Blindskills.com, 29% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (502 ms) belongs to the original domain Blindskills.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 381.8 kB (67%)

Content Size

574.1 kB

After Optimization

192.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blindskills.com main page is 574.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. CSS take 369.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 11.5 kB
  • After minification 10.9 kB
  • After compression 4.5 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 7.0 kB or 61% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 105.3 kB
  • After minification 97.3 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Blindskills images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 54.9 kB

  • Original 87.4 kB
  • After minification 75.2 kB
  • After compression 32.5 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 54.9 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 312.0 kB

  • Original 369.9 kB
  • After minification 369.7 kB
  • After compression 57.9 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Blindskills.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 312.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (33%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blindskills. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blindskills.com

blindskills.com

152 ms

skills2.css

skills2.css

40 ms

btn_donateCC_LG.gif

btn_donateCC_LG.gif

43 ms

videoseries

videoseries

143 ms

new_cover.jpg

new_cover.jpg

502 ms

count.js

count.js

502 ms

BSL_725_220.jpg

BSL_725_220.jpg

501 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

44 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

7 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

27 ms

base.js

base.js

54 ms

fetch-polyfill.js

fetch-polyfill.js

26 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

210 ms

qs_eGd-h9f3_frMeplByuCjrJjGTr5iyl3j-JE2Mo0s.js

qs_eGd-h9f3_frMeplByuCjrJjGTr5iyl3j-JE2Mo0s.js

112 ms

embed.js

embed.js

11 ms

ctin.php

ctin.php

383 ms

AMLnZu9lpWaIM1JFcizMEM2iuq22-gf-9MVhEdsXAXucgw=s68-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj

AMLnZu9lpWaIM1JFcizMEM2iuq22-gf-9MVhEdsXAXucgw=s68-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj

155 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

104 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

107 ms

id

id

89 ms

Create

Create

25 ms

Accessibility Review

blindskills.com accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

blindskills.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blindskills.com SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blindskills.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Blindskills.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

blindskills.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Blindskills. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: